Thursday 24 April
	Mr. Bart de Louwere,  Sex Work Project, AMOC, The Netherlands Street-based and internet outreach work with Romanian young men selling sex to men. Biographical data: Bart de Louwere studied cultural social work in The Netherlands and worked for years as a youth worker in Amsterdam with youngsters from different nationalities. Since 2005 he has worked at de Regenboog AMOC, an organization that primarily supports foreigners with drug problems, where he is currently working on a project with illegal European male prostitutes. His target group consists of Romanian boys who offer sex to men in Amsterdam. Mr. de Louwere’s work includes street outreach work, internet-outreach and consultation hours with possibilities for focusing on prevention as well as social work.
	Mr. Matej Sande, DrogArt, Slovenia Making contact: Outreach work at dance events and training of outreach workers. Mr. Sande will present methods and approaches for working with youth in the rave scene. He will focus on user involvement and peer training. Biographical data: Matej Sande, Ph.D. is lecturer at the Faculty of Education Department for Social Pedagogy at the University of Ljubljana. His main fields of work are ATS (Amphetamine type stimulants) and alcohol prevention strategies and research. In the NGO DrogArt he is involved in different preventive projects with the emphasis on youth work, peer approach, field work and new communication strategies in prevention.
	Ms. Melanie Ancliff, WAC Performing Arts and Media College, London, Great Britain How to train and work with volunteers in the youth sector. Presenting CrossWorker, an educational program for volunteers working with young people at risk. Biographical data: Melanie Ancliff has worked as a teacher for over thirty years and is a member of the WAC senior management team. Mel has worked on international projects exploring accreditation with socially excluded youth, and has a long track record working with the local community providing innovative services for young people at risk.
	Mr. Helder Luis Santos, Dynamo International, Portugal Presenting guidelines and experiences with outreach services and communication via multi-media Biographical date: Helder Luis Santos is secretary executive of Conversas de Rua – Associação a Portuguese NGO that work with drug prevention and harm reduction, in communitarian development and Art Therapy. Santos is a Prevention Trainer Team Supervisor working in several countries in Europe, Africa and America with street-, youth- and project workers. And he works as a Network travail de rue coordinator in Dynamo International.
	Mr. Moses Kuvoame, the City of Oslo, Department of Detached and Outreach Youth Service of the Agency for Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, Oslo, Norway Reaching, empowering and achieving inclusion for marginalized and hard-to-reach minority ethnic youth: The Youth in Charge Project in Oslo. Biographical data: Moses Kuvoame is a sociologist with a specialization in social policy, welfare and deviance. He manages the Youth in Charge Project for the City of Oslo, AADAS. The project targets marginalized minority ethnic youth. His areas of competence include minority ethnic youth and “the Streets”, reaching marginalized groups in migrant communities, police-ethnic minority relations, globalization, international migration, the changing welfare state and new inequalities, and advocacy/anti-racist practice.
	Ms. Marte Feiring, Ms. Nora Gotaas, Mr. Erik Henningsen, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Norway The art of practice in outreach youth work Biographical data: Marte Feiring Marte Feiring has a degree in sociology from the University of Oslo (1992) and works in the Department of Welfare, Democracy and Governance Research. She has earlier worked as a research fellow at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo. Her areas of competence include welfare politics and policymaking, modernity and governance theory of the public sphere, knowledge and problem perception in government, knowledge and practices in outreach work, public health and planning mental health, politics and knowledge (regulation tools), career guidance and partnership, health services, rehabilitation services, and services for the  disadvantaged. Main theoretical perspectives include welfare state theory, sociology of knowledge, governance and theories of interaction, quantitative and qualitative methods, and various interview techniques including fieldwork, historical methods and evaluation studies.
	Ms. Nora Gotaas has a degree in social anthropology from the University of Oslo (1992), and works in the Department of Welfare, Democracy and Governance Research. She coordinates work in the multidisciplinary priority research area Migration and Integration Research (MIR). Her areas of competence include culture and communication processes, modernity and governance theory of the public sphere, knowledge and problem perception in government, integration issues, ethnic minorities and the judicial system, discrimination issues, use of interpreters in the judicial system and child welfare service, promoting coping skills of and rehabilitating offenders, regional knowledge in the Czech Republic and Central Europe, and qualitative research methods involving various interview techniques including fieldwork.
	Mr. Erik Henningsen has a degree in social anthropology from the University of Oslo (1999), and works in the Department of Welfare, Democracy and Governance Research.  He has worked as a researcher at the Telemark Research Institute and as a research fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. His areas of competence include nationalism and national identity, youth politics, cultural policy issues, social and cultural aspects of sports, globalization, management consultancy and management ideologies, and qualitative research methods involving various interview techniques and fieldwork.
	Mr. Mikko Salasuo, The Finnish Youth Research Society, Helsinki. Finland New Youth Law; The Finnish youth policy and factors that contribute to social exclusion/inclusion. Biographical data: Mikko Salasuo is a senior researcher at the Finnish Youth Research Society. Salasuo has published, co-edited and co-authored numerous articles, books and reports on various aspects of youth and youth culture. His dissertation "Drugs as Zeitgeist", published in 2004, examines the use of drugs as a socio-cultural phenomenon in Finland. His research has continued to focus on youth culture, youth work, the use of alcohol among youths, youth politics and health sense. Salasuo's latest monograph is "In the Heart of Youth Work" (January 2008). Salasuo has given numerous international lectures at universities and presentations in various expert forums of the European Council and EU. In addition, he has acted as Alcohol and Drug Policy Advisor for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health for diverse international activities. On a national level, Salasuo has been acting in an expert capacity for the Ministry of Education, for example by contributing to the newly drafted development plans coordinating youth policy in the central government.